What would be your top 3 biggest entertainment blunders in the last 15 years that had they done it better it would've made a lot more money?
Obviously without saying, the virus that is DEI/obsession with representation has ruined a lot of stuff, but here are my top 3.
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Not having Luke training Jedi students as one of the opening scenes of episode (could have easily had Han/Luke/Leia and maybe Lando reunite at the beginning, also you could've had Rey be one of his top students and the other Jedi provide an outlet for future stories)
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Not doing an inspirational Superman movie with Henry Cavill (speaks for itself)
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Marvel deciding to follow the All-New All Different crap instead of years of better source material for their movies. Why not do a Kirby inspired F4 or the X-Men, Silver Sable, Black Cat, actual Defenders, etc. But of course it makes more sense to push characters who are self inserts whose comic books keep getting cancelled like how they are really pushing Ms. Marvel to be the face of the company. (I know the comic book industry has had issues in the past, but to constantly push crappy female characters or race swapped characters that nobody asked for as well as telling actual comic book fans to piss off is beyond insanity)
Honorable mention: letting some moron showrunner be in charge of Wheel of Time when he cares more about girl power/lgbt representation.
Not sure it cost them money but not having Jon Snow fight the Night King was dumb or at least him and Ayra fight him together.
Lucasfilm not continuing the EU in it's own continuity instead of telling a group of very loyal fans to piss off.
What are yours?
Redo of Healer was exactly what I thought of when writing that.
Its also downright tame compared just to background elements in Berserk. A violent rape is downright nothing compared to an army created from throwing pregnant women into a demonic soup so their babies can rip out of them. Redo was also barely watched for the "story." That's why the majority of its audience was female, it was entirely for porn because its nothing but "violent rape" over and over. Which is why the controversy to it didn't last long.
I read some of the manga years ago. The more "erotic" elements were massively turned up for the anime, clearly knowing the audience, while the more "brutal and extreme" parts were tuned down. At least for the bits I got through (I never got far passed meeting the bird girl).
Whereas anything from Lost Children or the Rape Horse or the Qilpoth section has nothing erotic to it nor any ability to "tune it down" to be less brutal, but is absolutely required for the story to progress.
Maybe I'm wrong, but its a consideration I can see being part of the reason why. Especially with a series as massive as Berserk, wherein trying to do more would be a decade+ commitment to get through all the 42 volumes. Considering the last two adaptations basically made no money, it would be near impossible to convince an investor to fund such a thing on pure passion.
I don't doubt the female audience is there. Griffith has to have fans somehow and the series is almost built for yaoi.
But Berserk itself isn't pornographic. The rare scenes of anything even approaching sex are barely dwelled on and lack any eroticism. The only two exceptions to that are in Golden Age. They'll watch it, but then they will move onto their fanfiction and shipping wars about it instead of watching certain scenes over and over for masturbation like Redo of Healer was made for.
And an OVA could work, but those are both more expensive to make due to distribution method and are more limited in terms of drawing a non-fandom audience, meaning making less money back on top of it. Which is a problem when you'd need something like 150 episodes to adapt all of Berserk proper, and the longest OVA by a margin was barely 110.
Its just not economically feasible for anyone but an ultra rich guy on a passion project. Especially after the last two adaptations bombed that hard and I curse whoever greenlit them for that reason.